Artist Name: Lianet Martínez
Residency Dates: August – September 2025
Born: 1993
Hometown: Cienfuegos, Cuba
Lives & Works: Havana, Cuba
URL: lianetmartinez.com | Instagram @lianetmartinez.artstudio
Education:
2019 – B.F.A in Painting, Higher Institute of Art (ISA), Havana, Cuba
2012 – High School Diploma in Painting, National Academy of Fine Art “San Alejandro”, Havana, Cuba
Bio/Statement:
Lianet Martínez’s artistic practice centers on the three-dimensional realm, combining sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, photography, and unconventional materials. Her work uses the object as a symbolic vehicle to explore themes such as memory, perception, identity in transit, and the tension between the intimate and the collective. Through a deeply sensory and conceptual investigation, her practice reflects on how experiences—both personal and shared—are inscribed in the body and in space. She is interested in the construction of truth through the sensitive and the symbolic, and in how our perception of reality is shaped by personal history, knowledge, and emotion. Nature, time, and everyday rituals are the key to her visual universe, from which she articulates poetics of transformation and belonging in contexts of constant change.
Lianet Martínez is the winner of the Most Creative Graduate Award (ISA, Havana, 2019). She was selected for the Havana Biennial (2012, 2015, 2019, 2022, 2024) with monumental public sculptures. Lianet completed the residency Mi casa es tu casa at Nuno Sacramento Contemporary Art (Aveiro, Portugal, 2019), culminating in the two-person show Alquimia. She has participated in Zona Maco 2024 (Ejes Section, Galería Servando) and 2025 (Main Section, Galería Habana), Mexico, and was also invited to Artomatic (Washington D.C., USA, 2024) and the Osaka Art Fair (Japan, 2025). Lianet presented Alquimia de una Isla at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (USA, 2025). Her work is part of collections in the USA, Puerto Rico, Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and Cuba. She is represented by Génesis Galerías de Arte and works with Galería Habana.
Support: Lianet Martínez’s residency is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Cuban Artists Fund.
